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by wellpast 12y ago
Architectural flexibility and architectural soundness are orthogonal properties. An inflexible system that is architecturally sound may obligate you to build more than its more flexible counterpart when novel use cases come around but it
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by wellpast 12y ago
I have to disagree. It doesn't take prescience to build solid architectures. It takes skills. Prescience (understanding your future requirements) can help dictate what your priorities are as a business, what features and flexibility to
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by wellpast 12y ago
By the time technical debt becomes evident enough for it to be noticed as a problem, it is most often too late to do anything about it. For those that don't believe me, show me enough businesses that have successfully refactored their
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by wellpast 12y ago
>> The future is pretty irrelevant, so asking to design based on future requirements is uncanny. The future is irrelevant? That's exactly what design is for -- to protect you from the future. If you didn't care about the fut
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by wellpast 13y ago
I'm not pushing the problem to lack of discipline. People are certainly fallible. That's why static analysis is so useful. But there are many other factors to consider -- and sometimes dynamic languages are the better choice. You
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by wellpast 13y ago
This if you're testing spaghetti code or a monolith. In a system of low coupling and small highly cohesive components the cost of catching defects at the upper levels is not high enough to justify the cost of blindly using the tools be
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by wellpast 13y ago
This is terribly wrong. Correctness is brought about by ALL of your tools in hand. These tools include unit testing, processes like continuous integration and code review, and so on, in addition to language features such as its syntax and
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by wellpast 13y ago
"The ultimate point is not to have a startup, to get acquired, to make money. The ultimate point is to make something cool, something different, something technologically innovative." The point to make money is no more selfless an
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by wellpast 13y ago
This is what Alan Kay means when he says, "IQ is a lead weight." [1] Also see Rich Hicky's talk "Simple Made Easy." [2] In which he suggests that nobody's that smart; you will always hit a brick wall without
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The Friendship Paradox(slate.com)
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by wellpast 13y ago
Isn't that just Wired Magazine in general?
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by wellpast 13y ago
I've been using Evernote (Win + iPhone) avidly (and reliably) for years -- now at 2000 notes -- and haven't had (or noticed) any of the issues being discussed here. But now I'm nervous! I'll continue to use Evernote in t
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by wellpast 13y ago
Yet ironically, perhaps a great programmer is a hybrid of all of these archetypes?
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Why the 9-to-5 Day Is So Tough on Creative Workers(m.theatlantic.com)
170 points by wellpast 13y ago|96 comments
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by wellpast 13y ago
I experienced sleep paralysis for several years before finding out that it was a phenomenon that happened to other people. Less than 5% of those occurrences were hallucinogenic with extremely vivid hallucinations. Often the hallucinations i
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by wellpast 13y ago
I've discussed this topic of consciousness with others and there is a common visceral reaction (like the one in this comment) that is common when challenging the presumed location of consciousness, especially from programmers, and I&#x
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by wellpast 13y ago
Actually there is better and worse. Verbs/functions are easier to compose and recompose; they're easier to reason about (there is no "state" in verbs; verbs are declarative.) Nouns (assume: with behavior; not just data -
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by wellpast 13y ago
context: http://www.nbc.com/saturday-night-live/video/crystal-gravy/n...
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The Boss Stops Here(nymag.com)
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by wellpast 14y ago
@Nullable plus static code analysis gives me quite a bit of static-time feel goodness in Java without any need for Optional/Maybe.
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by wellpast 14y ago
Heatlamp (jmolly.com/heatlamp) generates sequence diagrams from running Java/JVM code.
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by wellpast 14y ago
Act II of your story is a chain of not just one cause and effect events.
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by wellpast 14y ago
I've spent many years developing skills that pay well, that I'm good at, that offer an easy flow and easy productivity. But at the end of the day I don't want this to be what my life is about. I wish I'd started earlier following my passio
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by wellpast 14y ago
I wholeheartedly disagree with this post, though I do like his conceptual framework of composable and contextual abstractions. I've worked on countless Maven builds and have done everything under the sun. Maven's plugin system allows you to
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by wellpast 14y ago
The article is about this site: http://www.entresting.com/blog/100-days-of-rejection-therapy...
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by wellpast 14y ago
I think the two voices here are interesting. The first account is very much a personal account (here's my story), the second comes across as much more prescriptive and didactic ( you should have kids). The first person seems content with
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by wellpast 14y ago
There is an internal property of a software system wherein it is better suited to accomodate the future (new requirements, change). Better suited means it can accomodate the future more efficiently and stably. Two software systems may delig
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by wellpast 14y ago
I really wish the script would be made available to potential backers. If I liked the writing I might be inclined to contribute to the project. What would be the downside of publishing the script for a film that is trying to get social fund
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by wellpast 14y ago
I use IntelliJ with multiple non-nested Maven projects all the time. I typically have a projects directory under which I have many subfolders containing Maven projects. In IntelliJ I create a single module rooted at my "projects" folder but
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by wellpast 14y ago
I agree that this isn't enough to judge Einsteins morality, but it is interesting the tendency to want our heroes to be noble people. James Thurber wrote a wonderful short story about this -- The Greatest Man in the World.

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